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coffee_enjoyer
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2yr ago
The biggest evidence that mRNA was woefully understudied is the huge antibody class shift from igg1/igg3 to igg4 discovered just recently in the Pfizer max-vax cohort. This was never studied by Pfizer or the Gov, can possibly (whatever the chance) have life-threatening implications, and most importantly was not predicted by anyone except a few anti-vaxxers, notably some random autistic Indian on Twitter [1]. What’s especially funny is while this Indian dude was begging in emails to Gov to research antibody class shift, the “verified scientists” on Twitter were calling him full of shit [2].
At the least, you’d expect the manufacturer to know that such a significant change happens in the body. Not knowing this is like a food manufacturer producing shelf stable food without studying whether it grows mold.
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2yr ago
If what we’re after is improving the reasoning of Americans, then we should orient a class around analyzing varied texts, understanding fallacies, appreciating good reasoning, and comprehending philosophical approaches and complex sentence structures.
Saying history class is good because 2% of the time they do this is like saying every student should spend 10 years learning the marine biology of the Mariana Trench because 2% of the time they read graph and statistics.
OP does not want to erase history class and replace it with thumb twiddling. Of course he would like to replace it with a class which more efficiently produces a desired character.
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2yr ago
Today, in our age of compulsory history courses, the kids love rap. What I would suggest as an alternative is introducing the inherently beautiful cultural artifacts and stories of history, and no trivia or random facts. Mozart is inherently beautiful regardless of any trivia about the composer and his origins. We should be teaching the beauties and greatnesses of history and fewer of the random tragedies that have no applicable moral lesson (eg Pompeii). Beauty can make someone’s life better, trivia can’t.
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2yr ago
Agreed with premise. History classes today are half trivia and half moral lessons. The trivia is meaningless, and the lessons are faulty. WW1 and American Revolution lessons are entirely trivia, with no influence on your appreciation for reality or ability to live a meaningful life. Lessons on women earning the right to vote become faulty morality: men for most of history were simply evil and putting women down, pay no attention to the impossibility of female enfranchisement without modern technology and a safe modern state.
I’m trying to think if there’s anything of value to be gained from history, and indeed there is: art history, the history of philosophy, and music history will present you with beautiful things that can genuinely inspire you and make your life better. Everything? The battles, the dates, the elections? No value. We’re not raising military generals, we are raising median adults. “War bad” is not a legitimate moral lesson.
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2yr ago
Any books or good Wikipedia pages on female social organizations in the 1700s to early 1900s?
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2yr ago
I get the whiff of neurolinguistic programming from this. Calling Trump’s electoral fraud claims “the big lie” covers up for the variety of Big Lies the media proliferated: the pee tape, the dossier, the Russian connection. These were lies so flagrant and absurd, who would ever think to make up such a lie? This is the way the term was used by Hitler, and is not actually applicable to Trump’s electoral claims (in which it’s a reasonable thing to lie about). The idea is that the phrase acts as a linguistic revision in the viewer’s mind.
“Racial reckoning” is similar: it’s not about actually reckoning who owes what — there’s no calculation, no doing the math. The phrase is used to prevent the viewer’s mind from actually thinking about reckoning on race (tax input/output, productivity, who is owed what). So they say “racial reckoning”, then the media quickly points this phrase at emotional stories. This prevents the viewer from considering the actual avenue of thought regarding making a judgment on race.
The national conversation on race is similar. There is no such conversation, and they don’t want one. They don’t want you as a white person actually conversing nationally about your race. So they say “national conversation”, then they use this cue to point to what’s actually the passive listening to whatever these handpicked coastal pundits are saying. Again, the strategy is just to prevent you from considering what the phrase means divorced from what the pundits associate it with repetitively in their monologues.
So I don’t know, I’d look at the ADL and SPLC
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2yr ago
I remember that. He worked in a federal department that handed out grants, I think by phone line. He looked into the businesses and they weren’t really eligible for them and many didn’t exist. Did you happen to screen shot that comment?
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2yr ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001759/
There’s a lot, just search “vitamin c blunts/reduces exercise/adaption”. Plug them into scihub to access for free
Also check out the studies on hormesis /
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2yr ago
Change takes time. No one would be making such propaganda if advertisers were seriously boycotted and funders had legal protestors outside their businesses and activist-journalists phoned up all of their past classmates and partners fishing for reputational damage.
The Hasids also had their fare-share of rock-slinging a la David & the Goliath: https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/03/archives/70-are-hurt-including-62-officers-as-hasidim-storm-a-police-station.html
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2yr ago
The Hasids do an excellent job, actually a perfect job of maintaining an insular community. Their strategies can be studied and copied. Their victories are stunning, they literally take hundreds of millions of the gentiles’ money and use it to indoctrinate their children into the Hasidic culture. There’s no reason why sufficiently motivated conservatives cannot begin to organize according to an Hasidic template.
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2yr ago
Sekiro and Demon Souls are considered the most difficult sword/adventure games. What are some of the most difficult games in other genres: puzzles, RPGs, survival?
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2yr ago
If a Great Pyrenees is walking suspiciously while giving you side-eye she has something in her mouth
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2yr ago
The systems are more complex than scientists think which is why you shouldn’t supplement exogenous antioxidants outside of their natural form. Nuts consumption is strongly tied health, E supplements are not. Natural vitamin c is healthy, taking 2000mg will negate your exercise for that day.
Re E: https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/truth-about-vitamin-e-vitamin-e-safer-implied
Surely you don’t believe that the endogenous antioxidant mechanism is sufficient for health, because then the inflammation from refined grains would be easily dealt with, right? So the only question then is whether natural exogenous antioxidants taken with inflammatory food reduces the inflammatory effect temporally
This line of thought actually scares me because it can be used as propaganda against making humans and animals healthier. This will be propaganda to destroy more nature in the guise of protecting nature. In particular
Even the time-honored idea of the “balance of nature” has by now been decisively refuted by modern ecological thinking
Is pants on head dim. The death and competition of wild animals serves to purify their health. When the birds are healthy they produce more offspring, only a few of which will be healthy and produce more; and the birds that eat the most nutritious seeds will distribute these widely. The principle is baked into all living things. When you take, eg, humans out of nature’s filter, you see autoimmune diseases increase, dysgenics increase, etc — this is what the urbanite neo-philosopher fears, that people realize their “people” are slowly being corrupted. I would call this fear a little culturally Jewish, and it does seem Nussbaum converted — because Jews have been divorced from agriculture for so long, were oppressed by Darwinian thinking, and (although I can’t find it) but Jewish groups have warned about eco-fascism in the past.
Yes, when the weakest animals die they suffer, but consider the happiness gained by:
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Future generations, who are healthier
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The healthier animals, who procreate and have more resources
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The predator, whose enjoyment of predation is his entire life
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All who enjoy more and healthier foliage and trees
You cannot “save” the weak animals in nature without a worse cost. If you feed them, that is feed taken from those who deserve it. If you allow them to procreate, those are weaker animals that are destined to die anyway. Anything that substantively saves them longterm makes the whole of the community unhealthier.
I stand by my ethical principle that I do not care if 100 trillions dolphins die, the only thing I care about is if the dolphin “community” is healthy and thriving in its niche, balanced with the needs of the ecosystem
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2yr ago
No one claims that the oxidative stress from modern grains are healthy. Oxidative stress from eating is generally always considered unhealthy. The stress from exercise is healthy so that your body repairs muscle damage. The endogenous antioxidants are not sufficient for combatting the spike in oxidative stress from eating which is why fasting and food sources that reduce meal-related oxidative stress are correlated to health
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2yr ago
So, the grains in common use 20k years ago are not the same as today. Most common grains eaten today are inflammatory, causing oxidative stress.
Ancient humans ate a variety of fibers and plant matter consistently, which we do not. They may very well have combined natural anti-inflammatory herbs etc with large meals. Garlic and meat is a good example. Your comment is not useful to my question. Antioxidants from green tea and cocoa are healthy, and my question is whether the combination of these healthy natural “fighters” of oxidative stress with exogenous anti-inflammatory compounds is good for health.
I suppose, on revisiting my question, it’s a good idea to combine inflammatory food with anti-inflammatory plants as this is how most ancient societies cooked
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2yr ago
This Rasmussen poll indicates that a big chunk of Americans overestimate the fatality rate:
I do not particularly trust phone interview polling, but this is the best we’ve got.
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2yr ago
I find this hypothetical less interesting only because it is approximately the mainstream consensus amplified. If you asked the median Democrat voter the risk of a 30 year old dying from coronavirus per infection, I think they would put it at 1% per infection, and with infections every six months that’s about 20% mortality in a decade. I wonder if this polling has been done. (If the polling has been done this would be the best place to find it, I love when users pop in with the most obscure statistic.) Though I suppose that can be a case of statistical illiteracy.
I would definitely expect a blacklash against pundits though, perhaps even with a (theatrical) federal charge.
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2yr ago
Does anyone happen to have a list of the “letters to the editor”, letters to loved ones, journalized speeches, recordings and books published by American Jewish holocaust survivors within two years of resettling in America? There’s gotta be tens of thousands of these in local papers or archives. It would be all I would talk about if it happened to me. This would disprove denialism considerably, because there’s no way so many survivors, who migrated to many different parts of America, would have all their ducks in a row.
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2yr ago
So be it, I shall add another neo prefix.
A pure hypothetical thought experiment: imagine it occurs that the Pfizer mRNA vaccination + all booster follow-ups (4+ shots) regimen is disastrous to health, and has a high 10-year mortality rate. In other words, those who strictly adhered to the recommended CDC/Pfizer vaccination schedule have a 25% of dying by the decade’s end, or some such risk. What would be the public’s response and what would be the just punishment for those involved?
I think in such a hypothetical, the whole political climate of 21st century neo-neoliberalism will be fundamentally altered. There would be a huge rightward shift on distrust to authorities, especially but not limited to scientists and public health authorities. I don’t think the public would be satisfied with Fauci and other heads being tried, and will demand sentences for the thousands of individuals involved in the decision similar to what we would see in the Nuremberg trials. This would also fundamentally change the political climate, as the “vax-maxxed” lean left.
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2yr ago
16.6% of Americans are on antidepressants whereas only about 1.5% of Germans are. 12.5% of Americans are on benzodiazepines, only 2% of Germans are
German suicide rate is 12 per 100k. White American suicide rate is 18 per 100k. This white American number is significantly underestimated because of the fentanyl crisis, leading to some suicides labeled overdose, and killing those who have a high chance of killings themselves.
This is not correct when you account for greater complexity. In the case of Germany,
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Free or less expensive colleges
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Better public education, so no need for costly private school
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Up to three years of maternity leave, which has a benefit far in excess of simply lost wages (as it benefits the child and family as a whole; reduces risk of personality disorder in the child)
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More biking and walking than cars
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More green spaces, less noise pollution, increasing health
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More vacation time and regulation on hours
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Greater mental healthcare (and health) both preventative and curative
Etc
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2yr ago
You are comparing the ”score” (to use your terminology) of successful white Americans against groups that were largely illiterate and undeveloped in 1800. You should be comparing white American “wins” against Germany, Switzerland, Korea, and Japan. You’re doing the equivalent of pitting a struggling middle school sports team against the little league, and then announcing that the middle school sports team is great (and privileged!) because they do better. In fact, this team might have legitimate grievances on coaching methods, funding, and so forth
I really do not think that a high school history class increases reasoning in such a way that makes it better than alternatives. It’s “peruse this text your teacher makes you read to highlight keywords and dates”. There’s no actual analysis. And the essays you have to write encourage basic opinions, based on basic topics.
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